Delivery date given when order placed

[willsy]

Hi - I ordered MCE2005 on Wednesday 9th Jan, when i placed the order it gave me a delivery date of 11th Jan. I've checked and it still hasn't been picked. How accurate are the delivery dates given, are they only estimated dates? I'm not really complaining as i got the AV Forums free delivery , but most of the orders i've placed recently have turned up on time.

[Chris P]

willsy

Please PM the invoice number through to me

[willsy]

Got a delayed order notification a few hours after posting.

[willsy]

Still not picked at 8:10 tonight - any idea what the delay is?

Thanks

[willsy]

Had to send a query on the order before i was told the delay was due to the fact that i hadn't ordered a qualifying piece of hardware with the software. I don't mind the fact that i have to do this, but it's taken e few days and a query before i found out. Could this have not been stated in the delayed order notification instead of:-
" Please regard this email as a notification of delay in your order due to unexpected volumes in our warehouse. Please rest assured your custom is greatly valued and we will process your order with the utmost urgency. Your order has still been booked for a next working day delivery from the point of despatch and we will send further emails to confirm this."

[rabbid]

Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

from the product overview:
"PLEASE NOTE : The OEM agreement for SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION.
If the individual software license is a desktop operating system (including Windows XP Media Center Edition), we grant you a nonexclusive right to distribute individual software licenses; provided that each one is distributed with either (a) a fully assembled computer system or (b) a nonperipheral computer hardware component."

It might be helpful if such a list of qualifying items was linked to from each OEM software product? This might help people in the future.

[willsy]

Or it won't let you complete the order unless it includes a qualifying item.

[willsy]

"PLEASE NOTE : The OEM agreement for SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION.
If the individual software license is a desktop operating system (including Windows XP Media Center Edition), we grant you a nonexclusive right to distribute individual software licenses; provided that each one is distributed with either (a) a fully assembled computer system or (b) a nonperipheral computer hardware component."

Is this still the case - the product information doesn't state this now.

Only asking as i was thinking about ordering Home Server which doesn't state any 'to be bought with hardware only' restrictions either.